Make steam points and items bought with steam points tradable and marketable.

[kat]

Doing this would make steam points an actual currency similar to gems and it would make people buy more games.Doing this would also start a whole new group of traders which is always good.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by kat:

Make steam points and items bought with steam points tradable and marketable.

Doing this would make steam points an actual currency similar to gems and it would make people buy more games.Doing this would also start a whole new group of traders which is always good.

The whole point of the Points Shop is to not have them tradable or marketable.

[kat]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by kat:

Make steam points and items bought with steam points tradable and marketable.

Doing this would make steam points an actual currency similar to gems and it would make people buy more games.Doing this would also start a whole new group of traders which is always good.

The whole point of the Points Shop is to not have them tradable or marketable.

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I thought the entire point of the points shop was to customize your profile and there is no reason (that i know of) for them to not be tradable and marketable.

[loppantorkel]

Originally posted by kat:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

The whole point of the Points Shop is to not have them tradable or marketable.

:qr:

I thought the entire point of the points shop was to customize your profile and there is no reason (that i know of) for them to not be tradable and marketable.

Being able to trade them for items worth actual money...? Wouldn't that put Valve into the money printing business?

[kat]

Originally posted by loppantorkel:

Originally posted by kat:

I thought the entire point of the points shop was to customize your profile and there is no reason (that i know of) for them to not be tradable and marketable.

Being able to trade them for items worth actual money...? Wouldn't that put Valve into the money printing business?

It would be on steam marketplace where people have to make buy and sell orders so no it would'nt.

[Tito Shivan]

And why would Steam want a secondary marketplace when they already have one?

[Start_Running]

If you want buy swag, buy it on the market. thart alread exists. You'll actually get the stuff far cheaper than buuying with points.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by kat:

Doing this would make steam points an actual currency similar to gems and it would make people buy more games.Doing this would also start a whole new group of traders which is always good.

You can acquire points by NOT making purchases hence why they are not tradeable, marketable nor a currency.

https://store.steampowered.com/points/howitworks#Title

Overview (snipped)

You can also get Steam Points if someone from the community grants an award to one of your user reviews or other uploaded content such as screenshots, videos, guides, or Workshop items.


Secondly citation needed for "and it would make people buy more games".

[Ducks on Fire]

Originally posted by kat:

Doing this would make steam points an actual currency

They're not supposed to be currency.

Originally posted by kat:

Doing this would also start a whole new group of traders which is always good.

Because...?